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What was it like to head out west in a covered wagon? How did the pioneers get their wagons over rugged mountains and across wide rivers? Hop aboard the wagon train and find out what life was like for American pioneers!
Author : S. A. Kramer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1997-11-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0448413345
What was it like to head out west in a covered wagon? How did the pioneers get their wagons over rugged mountains and across wide rivers? Hop aboard the wagon train and find out what life was like for American pioneers!
Author : Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781560445623
Describes the experiences of eight unique women who traveled across the American West by wagon during the nineteenth century, discussing their struggles, dreams, fears, and observations.
Author : Stephen A. Bly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2015-05-23
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781512244854
"Retta Barre's not the first 12-year-old girl to travel the Oregon Trail, and she won't be the last. But for something that's supposed to be the grandest adventure of her life, the days sure are dull! Thick dust, vindictive bugs, and picking up buffalo chips - not exactly the stuff of the action-packed penny novels she loves to read. When things change in Retta's life, though, they change fast! A simple trip into the prairie, along with Retta's enthusiasm and timing, brings adventure and trouble - all at the same time! Soon Retta is the talk of the wagon train, and her friends don't want to miss the next caper she's sure to stumble into. And Retta certainly won't let them down."--Back Cover.
Author : Rhonda Gibson
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0369704649
The wagon train is her chance for a new life …but only if her secrets will keep.Widowed Mrs. Cora Edwards sees Oregon as a fresh start for her and her son…but there are a few problems. She’s not a widow…and baby Noah isn’t her son. He’s the nephew she’s vowed to protect—even if she must accept a marriage of convenience before she’ll be permitted on the wagon train. Her groom, lawman Flynn Adams, carries his own secret heartache…which Cora starts to ease. On the path to a new future, will they find a way forward together?
Author : Shirley Kennedy
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616507012
Traveling the Overland Trail toward California, a lonely young woman learns that love can lead you out of the wilderness . . . 1851, Overland Trail to California. As a baby, Callie was left on the doorstep of an isolated farmhouse in Tennessee. The Whitaker family took her in, but they’ve always considered her more a servant than a daughter. Scorned by her two stepsisters, Callie is forced to work long hours and denied an education. But a new world opens to her when the Whitakers join a wagon train to California—guided by rugged Luke McGraw . . . A loner, haunted by a painful past, Luke plans to return to the wilderness once his work is done. But he can’t help noticing how poorly Callie is treated—or how unaware she is of her beauty and intelligence. As the two become closer over the long trek west, Callie’s confidence grows. And when disaster strikes, Callie emerges as the strong one—and the woman Luke may find the courage to love at last . . .
Author : Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780382396434
Julie and her family join a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon during the 1800s, enduring many challenges while on the difficult five-month journey.
Author : S. A. Kramer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101645962
What was it like to head out west in a covered wagon? How did the pioneers get their wagons over rugged mountains and across wide rivers? Hop aboard the wagon train and find out what life was like for American pioneers!
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Re-enactment of the covered wagon journeys across America, using historic trails, Conestoga wagons, and period costume.
Author : Glen Laws
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499077130
This is the story of the emigrants following the Oregon Trail in the year of 1867. One of families is the Silas Martin family and daughter Mary who keeps a diary of events along the trail. Mary had two suitors during the trip-flamboyant John James Fairfield, 19-year-old son of Capt. Fairfield and James Monroe Cromwell, son of Rev. Cromwell. In the spring 1867, construction on the transcontinental railroad had reached Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Some emigrants were now using the railroad for their westward push. In early spring of 1867, Silas Martin joined 20 other emigrant wagons and 2 cargo wagons at Independence Missouri to begin their trek up the trail. Capt. Zeb Fairfield is the wagon master. Capt. Fairfield has a secret contract with the Army to bring 200 Spencer repeating rifles and $200,000 in gold to General Armstrong Custer bivouacked at Fort Hall by September. The first attack on the wagon train was by the Platte River by a remnant of the Quantrill Raiders and the Cole Younger gang. As the wagon train moved westward, it moved into an area known as the High Plains Indian Wars as designated by the Army. The Sioux and Arapahoe Indians joined forces to attack settlers and wagon trains. The first Indian attack was before Fort Laramie by a large number of Indians. Several emigrants were killed and several dozen Indians. A small Indian war party attacked emigrants in a broken down wagon with one emigrant killed and several Indians. At Fort Hall, four the wagons turn north to Fort Henry. The first days the wagons were accompanied by the Calvary due to an uprising by any Blackfoot Indians. On the third night, a Blackfoot Indian slipped into the camp and attempted to kill Mary.
Author : Frank Mullen
Publisher : a Halycon
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781890591014
The Reno Gazette-Journal and the Nevada Humanities Committee present Frank Mullen's account of the Donner Party, accompanied by hundreds of historical illustrations and Marilyn Newton's photographs of the trail today.